The smell of success

His nose led him to an unusual find – an annual verbena, pretty enough for patio pots, but also with the potential to be a scented cut-flower star.

Brian said: “I knew that if this plant passed on its colour and fragrance to its offspring, that we would be onto a winner. Not only was it a very pretty and compact verbena, the scent had to be smelled to be believed.”

Seed collected from the plant proved true to type and just as fragrant. A growing programme was put in place to build seed stocks for launch to the gardening public.

Verbena Scentsation will be available at garden centres and online at www.mr-fothergills.co.uk, in time for the spring sowing season, priced £2.69.

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Mandy Watson is a freelance journalist and an incurable plantaholic. MandyCanUDigIt grew from the tiny seed of a Twitter account into the rainforest of information you see before you. Gardening columnist for the Sunderland Echo, Shields Gazette and Hartlepool Mail and editor of the Teesdale Mercury Magazine. Attracted by anything rebellious, exotic and nerdy, even after all these years. Passionate about northern England and gardens everywhere. Falls over a lot.

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Mandy Watson is a freelance journalist and plantaholic with roots firmly planted in working-class NE England. MandyCanUDigIt grew from the tiny seed of a Twitter account into this rainforest of information. JPIMedia gardening columnist and Teesdale Mercury Magazine editor. Garden Media Guild and NUJ member. Mission statement: to make gardening more accessible to the often excluded - the less able, the hard-up or beginners. Advocate of gardening for better mental health.